Separate shootings leave two injured in Albany

Published 1:23 pm, Monday, August 17, 2015

ALBANY — Two men walked into Albany Medical Center Hospital this weekend with apparent gunshot wounds in what police said appear to be unrelated incidents.

The first occurred around 11:15 p.m. Saturday when a 20-year-old man arrived in the emergency room with a gunshot wound to the leg, police said.

He told officers he was shot near the intersection of First and Judson streets in West Hill but did not know the shooter.

Just shy of four hours later, around 3 a.m. Sunday, a man arrived at the ER with a gunshot wound to the torso and told officers he was shot on the 200 block of North Pearl Street. He, too, told police he didn't know the shooter.

Both men were treated at the hospital and released, police said. In both cases, hospital staff alerted officers to the men's injuries.

Investigators have found no links between the two incidents, police said, but anyone with information about either shooting can contact the detective division at 462-8039.